The B.G.S.'s part 9

                                                                          10^th June 2025

 

Hi Kiki. Something very funny happened yesterday and it involves that girl Kazuko. Remember when I told you I wished she could get into trouble for once and see how it feels to be punished? Well my wish came true yesterday; I’ll tell you what happened.

It all started yesterday morning when Shizuyo, Yuko and I were making our way to class. But then Kazuko blocked our path.

“What do you want?” said Shizuyo.

“I’ve heard you three spend your time in that abandoned shed outside the school ground, care to tell me why?” said Kazuko. She was poking her nose into our business again.

“If you must know,” I said, crossly, “we use it for our meeting place with Tatsuya, Hiroshi and Kouhei. And we have permissions from the principal to use it. If you don’t believe us go ask him”.

“Yeah” said Shizuyo and Yuko together.

The girls and I walked away from Kazuko to get to our class. “I have a feeling she is going to keep poking into our business today” Yuko whispered. “I think so too,” I said “I suggest we stay away from the shed today to keep her off our backs”. “I agree” said Shizuyo.

So the girls and I decided to not visit the B.G.S.’s in the shed yesterday. We had that nasty feeling inside all of us saying Kazuko would spy on us the whole day and wind up seeing the B.G.S.’s. During the day the girls and I attended our classes as normal. As for Kazuko she had her own classes so thankfully she didn’t bother us the whole time. The only time she bothered us was during break times, where she kept an annoying watch on us. This made Shizuyo really cross and wished to get even with her.

The chance for Shizuyo to get even on Kazuko soon came. That afternoon the girls and I got back to the middle school dormitory, when the dorm supervisor came up to us. She explained Kazuko left a folder in her room which she needed urgently. “I need you girls to go to her dorm room, fetch her folder and deliver it to her please, I’m too busy to do it myself” said the dorm supervisor. The girls and I agreed to the job; this gave us an idea to see if we could find any of her secrets, and if one of them was school rule breaking we could tell on her.

Once the girls and I got to Kazuko’s dorm room, we started to snoop around her room. So far it just looked normal and tidy and it seemed Kazuko had nothing that was forbidden to have in the dorms.

“I don’t think she has anything in here that could get her into trouble, being a real goody two shoe” I said.

“Uh don’t be too sure Kyoko,” said Yuko, who was searching under Kazuko’s bed.

“You found something?” I asked.

“Yes” answered Yuko. She presented a white shopping bag and inside it were pots of noodles.

“No way!” gasped Shizuyo “you have got to be kidding me?”

“Ha and the rules are we are not allowed to keep food in the dorms,” I said “not to mention all the times she tattle tailed in the past about somebody else secretly keeping food in the dorm rooms”.

“Well, well, well,” said Shizuyo “it seems our little too goody two shoes is a bit of a rule breaker after all”.

“Come on girls,” I said “we have a little bit of tattle tailing to do”. We left Kazuko’s room and revealed her secret to the dorm supervisor. She was shocked and cross when we showed her Kazuko’s bag filled with pots of noodles.

The dorm supervisor told the teachers and principal of the middle school section. And of course Kazuko got into trouble for keeping pots of noodles in her dorm room. As punishment she was to clean the hall ways in the dormitory for a whole week. The news spread around the school quickly and the students couldn’t stop laughing and sneering at Kazuko for what she had done. To them, especially to those she had snitched in the past, this was revenge.

So the girls and I finally managed to get our revenge on Kazuko and it was sweet Kiki.

The B.G.S.'s part 8

6^th June 2025

 

I’m sorry I haven’t written to you for a whole month Kiki, but some things happened after I last wrote.

The first story is the girls, boys and I had trouble with deciding where to keep our friend the B.G.S. As the janitor went back to work we could not keep it hidden in the janitor closet again. Shizuyo, Yuko and I had kept it in our dorm room for a little while, but it made us worry somebody would find our friend in there. Keeping it in the school somewhere like the basement or an unused classroom was not a good idea to hide it either. Even hiding it under a bush or in a tree wasn’t a good idea. But then Kouhei got the idea. Outside the school grounds there is an abandoned shed that no one uses anymore. Hiroshi and I asked the principles of the middle school and high school sections if we could use it. We had to lie to them saying we were going to use the shed as a meeting place for us; I know it’s bad to lie, but as you know Kiki Hiroshi and I couldn’t tell the principles the truth. The principles agreed and we hid the B.G.S. in the shed without any trouble.

The second story is we did find more little aliens at places we always go to; it took all the weekends of May for us to look for them as we couldn’t do it on the weekdays. It was surprising to us when we found them. We found three in the area outside the grounds; they had hidden themselves in some bushes. At the park we found five; one by the pond, two in a tree, one in a bush and one hiding by a flower bed. In the town we found seven; all of them hid in some bins near the shops. We even found ten more in the area where Mr and Mrs Tamara live; hiding in some old dog kennels would you believe? How we managed to find them easily was thanks to our friend the B.G.S. It bounced and squeaked wherever we went and then the other aliens squeaked in response and came to us. I felt like we were gathering up stray animals. You won’t believe this but they looked exactly the same as our little friend, but with different colours. One was blue, one was yellow, one was blue-green etc. They all bounced, glowed and squeaked so, by Yuko’s suggestion, we called all of them the B.G.S’s (the bouncy, glowing, squeakers). So we had 25 B.G.S.’s living in the abandoned shed.

The last story is that yesterday the girls, boys and I were spending time in the shed with the B.G.S.’s.

“This is great” said Yuko, who likes the B.G.S.’s.

“This may be great,” said Shizuyo “but what are we going to do about these aliens? We can’t really keep them here in this shed forever because somebody will find out about them”.

“Another question is how are these aliens going to get back home to outer space? They can’t fly you know” said Kouhei.

“What I’d like to know is how we find the rest of these aliens?” said Tatsuya.

The truth is Kiki after we found our 25 new friends in all the places we are allowed to go, we asked our red B.G.S. friend if there were more aliens and it squeaked yes. As the girls, boys and I have searched in every place where we are allowed to go to, I believe the rest of these aliens are somewhere hidden in other places in Japan like Tokyo or such. We don’t know what to do now because we don’t have the money to visit other places in Japan. Even if we did the teachers would never allow us to go without an escort.

I’m worried Kiki because helping the B.G.S.’s find the rest of their friends is going to be impossible now.       

 

The Christmas Pine Tree

          In some woods there stood a big old pine tree looking proud and tall. But the pine tree was sad. It was nearly Christmas time and the tree had been watching men cut down other pine trees for christmas trees. The pine tree wished he could become a christmas tree, but it had heard other men say that the tree wasn’t right enough for a christmas tree. This made the pine tree feel it would never become a christmas tree.

          One day the pine tree began to moan with grief. A robin heard its moaning and flew onto one of the tree’s branches. “Why do you sound so sad Mr Pine tree?” the robin asked. The pine tree explained to the robin of its wish to become a christmas tree. “All the other pine trees get picked but I never do”. “Oh but those trees never come back to the woods again, and I’ve seen them get turned into fire wood in the end” said the robin. “Yes but still it would be nice to be decorated and look beautiful, instead of looking plain and ugly” sighed the pine tree. The robin felt sorry for the pine tree and wished there was something he could do to help. But then an idea came to the robin and it flew off.

          The robin flew around the woods looking for the animals of the woods; rabbits, squirrels, mice, badgers, foxes, deers and other birds that lived in the woods. Once the robin found the animals, he told them about the pine tree and its desire to be decorated as a christmas tree. “I was wondering maybe we can decorate the tree to cheer it up” said the robin. “What would we use to decorate the tree though?” asked a squirrel “we don’t have any of the things humans use to decorate trees with”. “No but we do have things like pine cones, acorns, and berries here in the woods that we can use” said the robin. “We can also use bits of ivy too,” spoke a mouse “there’s lots of that stuff around here”. “I call this a good idea,” an owl said “that tree has been miserable for quite a while and it does need cheering up. So let’s decorate it to make it happy”. All the animals agreed to the robin’s idea to decorate the tree and soon all the animals and birds started to gather things for the tree. The foxes and badgers gathered up pinecones, the rabbits and mice gathered up ivy vines, the squirrels gathered up some of their acorns and other nuts they stored for winter, the birds gathered berries from trees and bushes and the deers gathered cattail plants from some ponds. Soon the animals had lots and lots of things to decorate the tree with. The robin even found a big sycamore tree leaf which he thought would make a good decoration. “Okay everyone let’s go and decorate the tree” said the robin.

          All the animals carried the ivy vines, pinecones, acorns, nuts, berries and cattail plants to the pine tree. “Hello Mr Pine tree,” said the robin “we have come to make your wish of being decorated come true”. The tree noticed all the pinecones, berries, etc on the ground and felt happy at once. The mice, squirrels and birds started to place everything on the tree as the badgers, rabbits, foxes and deers couldn’t climb the tree. It took some time but soon the tree was decorated with acorns, nuts, ivy vines, pine cones, berries and cattail plants. The robin placed the sycamore tree leaf on the top of the tree. “How’s that Mr Pine tree?” asked the robin. “This is lovely,” answered the pine tree “I thank all of you for doing this for me”. “We’re sorry that it’s nothing like how humans decorate their trees” said the robin. “Oh it’s alright,” said the pine tree “I’m happy with these decorations. I couldn’t ask for anything else”. The animals were happy they cheered the pine tree up. By now it was getting dark so all the animals and birds went back to their homes for bed.

          The next day all the animals and birds went to check on the pine tree. When they got to the pine tree they had the surprise of their lives. The pine tree had frost over it so now it looked very sparkly and glittery; the decorations had frost over them as well so they all looked glittery and sparkly too. “Woe Mr Pine tree,” said the robin “it seems last night’s frost decided to decorate you as well”. “You are right little robin,” said the pine tree “I now feel more splendid than ever”.

          The pine tree felt happier than ever because it finally got its wish of being a christmas tree, and the robin and other birds and animals were happy too because of how happy they made the pine tree.

           

The B.G.S.'s part 7

6^th May 2025

 

Hi Kiki. After school lessons were over with today, Shizuyo, Yuko and I went straight to the high school section to talk to the boys about our bit of excitement yesterday.

“The boys will not believe this” said Shizuyo.

“They will believe once they see our little friend” said Yuko. She had the B.G.S. in her schoolbag.

When the boys saw us on the school ground they ran up to us right away. “We heard stories about the janitor of your section saw a ghost yesterday, is that true?” said Kouhei. The story of the janitor seeing a ghost yesterday spread through the whole school.

“Well the janitor did see something, but it wasn’t a ghost” said Yuko. She opened up her school bag and the B.G.S. jumped out.

“Oh god!” gasped Tatsuya.

“What is that?!” gasped Hiroshi.

“We do not know what it is,” I said “we just call it a B.G.S. because it bounces, glows and squeaks”. The B.G.S. started to bounce and squeak in happiness.

“Okay,” said Hiroshi, dumbfounded, “I take it doesn’t talk huh?”

“Only squeaks,” answered Yuko “but it seems to understand what we are saying though. When we told it to stay put in the janitor’s closet and to keep quiet it did as it was told. And when we talked to it, it squeaked in response”.

“You girls really don’t know what it is?” said Kouhei. He couldn’t stop staring at it and began touching it.

“As it looks like a mixture of a jellyfish and octopus, it’s hard to make out what it really is,” said Shizuyo “not to mention it doesn’t need to stay in water to survive like actual jellyfish and octopuses”. The boys thought this was strange indeed.

“There is only one way to solve this,” said Tatsuya “we ask it questions”. Tatsuya kneeled down on the ground to talk to the B.G.S. “Okay little guy, I am going to ask you some questions. So I want you to squeak once to answer yes and squeak twice to answer no. Do you understand?” The B.G.S. squeaked once, meaning it did understand.

“See I told you it can understand what we are saying” said Yuko.

Tatsuya started to ask questions. “Okay do you live in the sea?” he said. The B.G.S. squeaked twice for no. “Alright what about living in a lake, pond or a forest?” The B.G.S. squeaked no.

“Maybe he lives in outer space or something” said Kouhei. We thought Kouhei was just joking but the B.G.S. squeaked once for yes.

We couldn’t believe it Kiki. This B.G.S. was an alien? I didn’t know what to think of that; everyone knows aliens don’t really exist in the real world.

Tatsuya went back to questioning. “Okay so you’re from outer space, are there are many more like you up there?” The B.G.S. squeaked yes; another unbelievable answer.

I stepped forward to talk to the B.G.S. “Did you come here to earth yourself or are your friends here with you?” I asked. The B.G.S. squeaked no and then yes.

“I reckon that means this thing didn’t come here itself,” said Hiroshi “did you girls see another look alike of this thing when you found it?”

“No we didn’t,” said Yuko “I reckon this B.G.S. got separated from its friends when it arrived here. It’s always like that in the science fiction stories; strange creatures or something coming to the planet earth and getting lost from each other”.

“If that’s true then this little guy’s friends must be scattered somewhere outside the school” I said.

“Oh that’s great,” said Shizuyo “what shall we do now?”

“Well we should not tell the teachers this;” said Kouhei “because the teachers will call scientists to come and take our little friend away from us. And those scientists will use and might dissect it for experiments, and we’ll never see it again”.

“I’m certainly not having anyone take this B.G.S. away from me” said Yuko, picking it up and giving it a hug. All of us started to shudder at the thought of our little friend being taken away from us and we were never going to see it ever again.

“If there are any more of these weird alien things, we should go look for them before somebody else finds them or they’ll be sent to science labs” said Kouhei.

“I agree with you Kouhei,” said Yuko “it’s not fair that we have only found one B.G.S. and the others haven’t been rescued yet. Besides this little guy will want help of finding its friends, don’t you little guy?” The B.G.S. squeaked yes.

We stared at each other for a second. “Okay then,” said Hiroshi, at last, “its official we are going on a hunt for little aliens”. We started to laugh a bit.

“Hold on a minute,” said Shizuyo “how should we start looking for these little aliens?”

“Easy Shizuyo,” I said “as we found our little friend here at school, the other little aliens couldn’t be that far from here. So we’ll start looking around the school and outside the school grounds and then we’ll go to places near the school”.

“I guess that makes sense” said Shizuyo.

“Okay everyone we start searching for the little aliens on Saturday sharp” said Tatsuya. We all agreed.

“One more thing;” I spoke up “apart from never telling the teachers about our discovery, we must not let any other students find out about this. And we most especially not let that student Kazuko find out because she will just tell on us to the teachers about our friend”.

“Not to mention she wouldn’t care at all of how sad we will become once our friend is taken away from us” finished Yuko.

“Our high school head disciplinarian student Masato Nii is no better either; he likes tattling too” said Kouhei. We all agreed to never tell anyone about our friend the B.G.S. and about our quest of searching for its friends.

So Kiki this was our start of searching for more little aliens like our friend the B.G.S. I hate to admit it, but I do feel like the girls, boys and I have just started our own science fiction story life, even though it sounds really ridiculous and impossible. I knew yesterday was just the beginning of a strange science fiction story life for us and I feel more weird days are yet to come. 

The Cry of the Watery Ghost

          One day, out in a forest three twelve year old boys were dragging a nine year old girl to a big pond. These boys were bullies and the poor girl was their victim. When the four children reached the pond, the boys pushed the girl into the pond. The boys were the cruel, selfish, mean type of bullies who liked bullying other children, especially children that were younger than them. The poor girl screamed and splashed around for help because she couldn’t swim, but the horrible boys didn’t care. They ran off, leaving the poor girl to drown.

          It wasn’t long till the girl’s dead body was found floating on top of the water, and of course the boys didn’t step forward to admit what they did. Sad thing was these cruel boys were the types who would never admit their wrongs and show no remorse for their sins. Another sad thing was no one knew what had happened; they never saw the boys bulling the girl and pushing her into the pond. So the boys were let off free.

          One night, not long after the girl’s body was found, a watchman was guarding the pond. Because of the drowning with the little girl, it was decided that someone would watch over the pond during the day and another during the night. While the man was keeping watch he suddenly heard a noise, a noise of somebody crying. He held up his lantern to see where the noise was coming from and there. Out on the middle of the pond, the water was gushing up from the pond and moving around like it was walking; it was like a watery ghost. The watchman was scared and ran away. A new watchman was placed to guard the pond at night, but he got scared after seeing the watery ghost and so did the next and the next and the next.

          One day a priest came to visit the pond; he heard about the watery ghost and wanted to see what was going on. That night he waited at the pond with the five watchmen who got scared before from the watery ghost. Soon they heard the crying and saw the water. “Oh ghost of the pond,” the priest called out “why do you haunt this pond? Does thou have regrets or art thou a spirit who is not put to rest yet?” The watery ghost heard the priest and stopped moving. Then the water took shape of the little girl who drowned. The watchmen knew at once who the girl was and told the priest. “Please tell me little girl,” said the priest “why are you still here?” The little girl walked over to the priest and tearfully told him about the boys and what they did to her. The priest and watchmen were horrified about what the little girl said.

          The priest and watchmen told the story about who the watery ghost was and about how the ghost died. The three cruel boys were punished severely for their crime and a little shrine was made for the little girl by the pond.

          The watery ghost never appeared at the pond again because the little girl’s spirit moved on to heaven, finally at peace.

The B.G.S.'s part 6

5^th May 2025

 

Um Kiki, you remember when the last time I wrote to you the girls and I wished for something exciting to happen? Well today something exciting did happen and you will not believe this.

It all started very early this morning, at 6.00 am when we were all still sleeping, when a loud noise was heard inside the middle school section. A school janitor was screaming and yelling out “Help!” The noise woke everyone up including the girls and me.

“What’s going on?” said Shizuyo, sleepily “what’s all the noise”.

“I don’t know,” I said “maybe something’s up”.

Something was up alright. Thirty minutes after everyone woke up we were all told by the teachers to get dressed and go to the assembly hall at once. This was confusing as it was only 6.30 am and nowhere near ready for school time to start yet.

In the assembly hall all of us students were curious about what was going on. Some of the students were still sleepy and wanted to go back to bed. Just then the principal came in and told us what happened. The janitor claimed he had seen a ghost. He was checking to see if everything was okay outside, when suddenly he noticed something glowing and bouncing around by the school’s flowerbeds and he thought it was a ghost which was why he was screaming and yelling for help.

“Students,” said the principal “I do not know what the school janitor saw, but I can reassure you it wouldn’t be a ghost because there are no such things as ghosts. But I would like all of you to keep looking out for anything strange today, just in case the janitor did see something. He will be taking a day off from work today to calm his senses. You are all dismissed now”.

“That was weird, the janitor seeing a ghost?” I said when we all came out of the assembly hall.

“He’s been working too hard or been in the sun too much that’s probably why he’s a bit dotty” said Shizuyo.

“I wonder what he really saw?” said Yuko.

“He probably just saw fireflies,” I said “fireflies always make weird shapes of things when they are flying about together. I’ve seen that myself”.

As it was now 7 am in the morning we all had to change into our uniforms and have breakfast. Thanks to the janitor waking everyone up so early we were still very tired.

When it was break time everyone decided to sleep through it as we were all still feeling sleepy. Shizuyo, Yuko and I decided to have a nap too and we went to have a nap under the trees.

Before we did doze off there was a rustling noise from a bush.

“What’s that?” asked Yuko, looking at the bush.

“Probably a squirrel or a stray cat” I said.

Yuko decided to take a look in the bush in case something was there. I told her to be careful.

“Hey Shizuyo and Kyoko look at this quickly” Yuko said.

Shizuyo and I joined Yuko and there lying in the bush wasn’t a squirrel or a cat, it was a red and white strange looking creature with six tentacles. White in the middle of the body, and red everywhere else.

“What on earth is that?” I said.

“Looks like an octopus to me” said Shizuyo.

“Really I thought it was a jellyfish” said Yuko. The creature had a round body of a jellyfish but its legs did look like an octopus but with six instead of eight.

The creature looked at us and it started bouncing about and glowing red. It even made squeaking noises.

Yuko laughed. “I don’t know what it is but it’s adorable” she said. She picked it up and gave it a hug. The creature liked it.

“Do you think this creature is what the janitor saw this morning?” asked Shizuyo.

“Well seeing that this thing bonces, glows and squeaks then it must be” I said.

Just then the school bell rang telling us break time was over. The girls and I didn’t know what to do; we couldn’t leave the creature there in the bush and we dared not take it into the classrooms with us. We knew if the teachers saw the creature they would take it away from us. But I suddenly had an idea; since the janitor was having a day off from work today I decided the creature could stay in the janitor closet while we were in class. Shizuyo and Yuko agreed with my idea so while no one was looking we went to the janitor closet. Luckily for us the janitor had forgotten to lock it, so we went inside the closet and placed the creature in there.

“I hope no one will hear this thing squeak while they walk past here” said Shizuyo.

“I’m sure it will be okay and once the school day is finished we’ll come back for it at once” I said. Yuko said goodbye to the creature then we all ran to our class before we could be even later.

Hours later the school day ended and the girls and I got the creature out of the closet and back into the garden. Luckily for us there were no reports of anyone hearing any squeaks or any other noises so we were safe.

“What are we going to do about this weird creature?” asked Shizuyo.

“That’s a good question,” I said “I mean this thing doesn’t need to be in water like jellyfish and octopuses. So I don’t think we need to take it to the beach or anything. Truth is we don’t even know what this thing is, nor do we know where it came from”.

The creature started to bounce around and glow and squeak again.

“This creature sure likes to bounce, glow and squeak,” said Yuko “seeing it doing that gives me an idea of calling it a B.G.S.”

“B.G.S.?” said Shizuyo “what’s that mean?”

“Well,” said Yuko “since this thing can bounce, glow and squeak; it makes it a bouncy, glowing squeaker”.

Shizuyo and I laughed. “Okay a B.G.S. it is then” I said, still laughing.

“So what should we do with this B.G.S.?” said Shizuyo.

“I suggest we show it to the boys,” I said “they might know what to do”. The girls agreed to the idea. It was too late now for us to go and visit the boys so we decided to show them the B.G.S. tomorrow.

And that Kiki was my strange and exciting day of meeting this strange creature which we called the B.G.S. and I have this feeling that today was only the beginning.

The B.G.S.'s part 5

1^st May 2025

 

Hi Kiki. Today was one of those dark, grey days for Shizuyo, Yuko and I. One because it had been raining all day and two we had been given the job of cleaning out the school basement.

“Urgh why were we chosen to do this?” asked Shizuyo.

“Because of Kazuko that’s why,” I said “she suggested to the teachers that we do it because we had nothing to do today”.

“That bitch,” said Yuko “if I was bigger and tougher than her I would give her a real piece of my mind”.

“Here, here” said Shizuyo.

“Let’s just get on with this and the sooner we’ve finished the sooner we can leave” I said. We got to work at once tidying up boxes and putting books in piles.

While I was picking up some old books that had been left on the floor, I stumbled upon some old comic books. Some were about aliens and spaceships from outer space and others were about girls with magical powers. I showed them to Shizuyo and Yuko.

“I’m surprised old comic books like these are at this school” said Shizuyo.

“They must have belonged to students who used to attend here,” I said “students have always left things behind like books, small toys and other bits and pieces after they graduated and left the school”.

“Seems a waste to me, especially if they were presents from someone” said Shizuyo.

We started to get back to cleaning but Yuko was more interested in looking at the old comics, until I told her to get back to cleaning.

“Do you know,” said Yuko, who was looking at a comic about a magical girl, “I wish sometimes that a magical girl or a mysterious being from other space will come here and give us some joy, comfort and excitement in our lives here, like they do in the comics and manga”.

“Pfft, excuse me Yuko,” Shizuyo chuckled “but the chances of somebody visiting from another planet, a different dimension or a different timeline are somethings that would never happen”.

“I do know that Shizuyo,” huffed Yuko “but still it would be nice to have something as exciting as that happening for real”.

“I do see what you mean Yuko,” I said “I mean nothing exciting ever happens around here much. And nothing new happens much whenever we go to the park at the weekends or at the beach when we go there during the summer holidays. Sure we have school trips to places now and again, but even they don’t excite us as much”.

“Exactly,” said Yuko “and it’s going to be like this till we leave this school for good. That is why I wish that things that happen in books and films will happen in real life while we are still at this school, just to give us a little surprise in our lives”.

“I get the picture,” said Shizuyo “and I do agree our lives won’t be full of excitement till after we graduate and start new lives for ourselves”.

“Come on you two,” I said “let’s just get back to cleaning. I want to get this over with and get the heck out of this dirty room”.

“Same here” said Shizuyo “and once we’re done I’m going to have a nice bath to get this dust off me”.

It took all day for us to clean up the messy basement, put everything in the right place and toss out rubbish and things that were broken. But we were soon done to our relief. Once we got ourselves bathed we went straight to bed; we were exhausted by our cleaning day.